PR Account Executive

Location:                      Southampton 

Working Pattern:          Full time, hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 days from home) 

About Grayling UK

Our people are in equal parts exceptional professionals and wonderful human beings. We live by being brave, curious, and collaborative, which helps us deliver award-winning work for our clients.

We’ve created a culture that champions personal growth and development, empowering everyone to be creative, innovate enjoy their work. Your growth is our priority because when you thrive, so do we. We’re serious about our work but never about ourselves, so if you’re looking to kickstart your PR & Communications career, you’ve come to the right place

About the role

We’re looking for a driven and ambitious Account Executive to join our team in this pivotal role within the agency where you’ll be responsible for delivering excellent day-to-day client work, playing a key support role within the team.

As Account Executive you’ll get to:

• Play a crucial role in the delivery of PR campaigns for your clients including developing compelling press releases, landing media coverage, engaging with influencers, and delivering social media campaigns.
• Manage Media relations activities, including media monitoring, trends analysis, opportunity-spotting and media liaison
• Build and manage media and forward feature lists and recommends appropriate opportunities to target
• Conduct effective media sell-ins & identifies most advantageous opportunities for client coverage
• Communicate accurately and keeps the team and client informed on progress in accordance with agreed processes, ensuring expectations are managed and any issues are escalated in a timely fashion
• Organise client meetings, helping to prepare agendas and sharing follow up actions.
• Deliver accurate written communications and can write a range of copy including: press releases, quotes, emails, status & contact reports, social media materials
• Manage departmental administration and supports the team, ensuring internal processes are followed
• Build and manage top-tier media relationships
• Assist in the new business process including participating in brainstorm meetings, research and proposal preparation
• Monitor the media landscape for new opportunities to sell in additional Grayling products and services to clients to enhance revenue and profitability

What will give you the edge

• A strong desire to build a career in public relations
• Excellent writing abilities
• Digitally savvy
• Curious – a desire to learn, improve, apply new knowledge and develop self
• Personal drive and passion for the industry
• Strong administrative and organisation skills
• Creative thinker and problem solver
• Ability to juggle multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to assimilate information quickly and recommend a practical response
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Our promises to you

• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working (where you can work two days a week from home)
• 25 days’ holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days.
• Duvet morning on your birthday 
• Gifted time off over Christmas 
• Flexible benefits platform where you are in complete control of what you receive. It could be anything from dental to gym membership, wellbeing initiatives, training, discount deals or simply a contribution to everyday bills and subscriptions (think Netflix, Amazon, Spotify etc!)
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Free breakfasts & weekly drinks in the office
• Regular team socials and early finish Fridays. 
• An abundance of personal development opportunities, through our Grayling Advantage Academy (with courses ranging from writing, resilience, creativity and more) 
• External mentoring via Creative Access for anyone from an under-represented background
• New business and employee referral bonuses.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line
• Life insurance

Get to know us

Grayling is the UK’s best-connected communications agency. With nine offices across the UK and 25 offices around the world, we create advantage for our clients through insight-led campaigns that deliver tangible results.

We are in the top 5 of Newsweek's 100 UK Most Loved Workplaces due to our open and supportive environment and were ‘Highly Commended’ in the large consultancy of the year category in the 2022 PR Week awards.

We’re a sociable bunch and life at Grayling will offer you a whole host of benefits including 4pm Friday finishes, hybrid working, regular training workshops and regular socials – not to mention the opportunity to work across award winning global campaigns! We’re growing fast, winning pitches and looking for the best talent to join us!

We believe diversity is strength. Our commitment at Grayling is to combine our employees’ unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organization that represents all of us and the businesses we work with.  We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and will give fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, family or parental status, neurodiversity and disability status. 

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and will be very happy to provide any reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process. For any advice or assistance please contact [email protected]